• Question: What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?
• Answer: A penny hanging from a string.
• Question: What goes up and down but never moves?
• Answer: A hanging clock.
• Question: What can you hang outside your house and still keep it inside?
• Answer: A painting on a window.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A piano hanging from the ceiling.
• Question: What has a neck but no head?
• Answer: A hanging plant.
• Question: What gets bigger and bigger the more you take away?
• Answer: A hole in a hanging net.
• Question: What has hands but can’t clap?
• Answer: A hanging clock.
• Question: What can be seen in the middle of March and April that can’t be seen at the beginning or end of either month?
• Answer: The letter “R” hanging.
• Question: What has a tongue but can’t talk?
• Answer: A hanging shoe.
• Question: What comes down but never goes up?
• Answer: Rain hanging from a gutter.
• Question: What has teeth but can’t eat?
• Answer: A zipper hanging from clothes.
• Question: What has keys but can’t open locks?
• Answer: A xylophone hanging from a tree.
• Question: What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
• Answer: A stamp hanging in a collection.
• Question: What can fill a room but takes up no space?
• Answer: The sound of wind chimes hanging.
• Question: What can be broken without being touched?
• Answer: A hanging promise.
• Question: What has ears but can’t hear?
• Answer: A hanging mirror.
• Question: What can fly without wings?
• Answer: A kite hanging from a string.
• Question: What has a foot but no legs?
• Answer: A stocking hanging from a fireplace.
• Question: What can’t be used until it’s broken?
• Answer: An egg hanging in a nest.

• Question: What has hands but can’t clap?
• Answer: A hanging scarecrow.
• Question: What can be full of holes but still hold water?
• Answer: A sponge hanging from a faucet.
• Question: What can be long or short, but never weak?
• Answer: A rope hanging from a mast.
• Question: What can be cracked, made, told, and played but never eaten?
• Answer: A joke hanging in the air.
• Question: What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
• Answer: A hanging pinata.
• Question: What can be seen but never held?
• Answer: A rainbow hanging in the sky.
• Question: What can be tied yet never knotted?
• Answer: A balloon hanging from a string.
• Question: What has a face but cannot see?
• Answer: A clock hanging on a wall.
• Question: What can be written, read, or even torn but never spoken?
• Answer: A letter hanging in a mailbox.
• Question: What can be found at the end of a rainbow but cannot be reached?
• Answer: A pot of gold hanging from a cloud.
• Question: What can be passed around yet never shared?
• Answer: A rumor hanging in the air.
• Question: What can be turned upside down but never falls?
• Answer: A lamp hanging from the ceiling.
• Question: What can be made of glass but never breaks?
• Answer: A chandelier hanging in a ballroom.
• Question: What can be opened but never closed?
• Answer: A window hanging from its hinges.
• Question: What can be bought, sold, but never owned?
• Answer: A breeze hanging in the air.
• Question: What can be found in a ring but never worn?
• Answer: A key hanging from a hook.
• Question: What can be made of steel but is not a sword?
• Answer: A bridge hanging over a gorge.
• Question: What can be built but never used?
• Answer: A dream hanging in the night sky.
• Question: What can be made of paper but never folded?
• Answer: A banner hanging from a flagpole.
• Question: What can be sharp but never cuts?
• Answer: A needle hanging from a thread.

Another Hanging riddles

• Question: What can be spun but has no thread?
• Answer: A mobile hanging from the ceiling.
• Question: What can be heavy but never touches the ground?
• Answer: A cloud hanging in the sky.
• Question: What can be painted but never moves?
• Answer: A mural hanging on a wall.
• Question: What can be raised but never lifted?
• Answer: A flag hanging from a pole.
• Question: What can be caught but never thrown?
• Answer: A glimpse hanging in the air.
• Question: What can be wound but never unravels?
• Answer: A spring hanging in a clock.
• Question: What can be opened wide but never closes?
• Answer: A mouth hanging from a scarecrow.
• Question: What can be made of silver but isn’t a coin?
• Answer: A moon hanging in the night sky.
• Question: What can be climbed but never reaches the top?
• Answer: A ladder hanging from a crane.
• Question: What can be tall but never stands?
• Answer: A shadow hanging from a tree.
• Question: What can be bright but never shines?
• Answer: A star hanging in a child’s room.
• Question: What can be made of words but never speaks?
• Answer: A story hanging in the air.
• Question: What can be spun but never danced?
• Answer: A web hanging from a spider.
• Question: What can be invisible but never hides?
• Answer: A thought hanging in the mind.
• Question: What can be built but never lived in?
• Answer: A castle hanging in a painting.
• Question: What can be crossed but never moved?
• Answer: A bridge hanging over a ravine.
• Question: What can be twisted but never turns?
• Answer: A tale hanging in the wind.
• Question: What can be made of pearls but isn’t jewelry?
• Answer: A necklace hanging from a branch.
• Question: What can be seen but never touched?
• Answer: A rainbow hanging in the sky.

• Question: What can be strung but never played?
• Answer: A guitar hanging on a wall.
• Question: What can be trapped but never escapes?
• Answer: A bubble hanging in the air.
• Question: What can be made of glass but never shatters?
• Answer: A prism hanging in a window.
• Question: What can be woven but never worn?
• Answer: A tapestry hanging on a loom.
• Question: What can be swung but never moves?
• Answer: A pendulum hanging in a clock.
• Question: What can be pulled but never tugged?
• Answer: A zipper hanging on a jacket.
• Question: What can be seen through but never seen into?
• Answer: A window hanging in a frame.
• Question: What can be drawn but never erased?
• Answer: A curtain hanging in a theater.
• Question: What can be woven but never spun?
• Answer: A basket hanging from a hook.
• Question: What can be tied but never united?
• Answer: A knot hanging in a rope.
• Question: What can be hit but never fights back?
• Answer: A pinata hanging from a tree.
• Question: What can be decorated but never worn?
• Answer: A Christmas ornament hanging on a tree.
• Question: What can be painted but never changes color?
• Answer: A mural hanging on a building.
• Question: What can be tied but never restrains?
• Answer: A ribbon hanging on a gift.
• Question: What can be built but never lived in?
• Answer: A model house hanging from a string.
• Question: What can be built but never collapses?
• Answer: A tower hanging from a crane.
• Question: What can be spun but never weaves?
• Answer: A yarn hanging from a spindle.
• Question: What can be climbed but never reaches the top?
• Answer: A ladder hanging from a fire escape.
• Question: What can be threaded but never sews?
• Answer: A needle hanging from a pin cushion.

Getting over with Hanging riddles

• Question: What can be spun but never woven?
• Answer: A spider’s web hanging in a corner.
• Question: What can be strung but never tuned?
• Answer: A harp hanging on a wall.
• Question: What can be planted but never grows?
• Answer: A seed hanging in a necklace.
• Question: What can be swung but never hits?
• Answer: A hammock hanging between trees.
• Question: What can be stretched but never strained?
• Answer: A rubber band hanging from a doorknob.
• Question: What can be crossed but never arrived at?
• Answer: A bridge hanging over a canyon.
• Question: What can be carved but never eaten?
• Answer: A pumpkin hanging on a porch.
• Question: What can be swung but never hit?
• Answer: A bat hanging from a cave ceiling.
• Question: What can be woven but never spun?
• Answer: A web hanging in a tree.
• Question: What can be tied but never untied?
• Answer: A knot hanging in a rope.
• Question: What can be swung but never flies?
• Answer: A swing hanging from a tree branch.
• Question: What can be spun but never dances?
• Answer: A dreidel hanging from a string.
• Question: What can be painted but never moves?
• Answer: A picture hanging on a wall.
• Question: What can be swung but never falls?
• Answer: A pendulum hanging in a clock.
• Question: What can be strung but never strums?
• Answer: A guitar hanging on a wall.
• Question: What can be tied but never worn?
• Answer: A bow hanging on a present.
• Question: What can be swung but never hits a ball?
• Answer: A bat hanging in a cave.
• Question: What can be spun but never sewn?
• Answer: A spider’s web hanging in a corner.
• Question: What can be tied but never breaks?
• Answer: A knot hanging in a rope.